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HOW TO: Get Your KX2/KOI to Play Movie Trailers, ENTIRE Music Videos and Songs!
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Posted by: berry_lthird

I have been able to get my KOI to play movie trailers, entire music videos and songs.

First of all, read my "All Things Multimedia" guide:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=620434

For movie trailers and music videos to work, you must export the video in .3g2 format using the instructions in my guide. The best tool for this is QuickTime Pro (I don't konw if the FREE version of QuickTime supports the exporting of video). Go to Apple's QuickTime website to download QuickTime and also any current movie trailers you wish to have on your phone.

I have also confirmed that standard .MP3 files will playback as ringers just fine regardless of the size or format! However, to get an ENTIRE song to play, the only way around it is to save the .MP3 file as a .WAV file first, then convert it to a Qalcom .QCP file.

In my guide I mention the use of the OEM Kyocera Phone Desktop (KPD) Tool.

For larger files and to specify which directory you upload those files to your phone, use the QPST tools instead:

http://www.filemirrors.com/search.s...=Mozilla-search

(If anyone can provide a better link, please post it!)

First, I connect to the phone using the EFS Explorer tool.

For videos, I upload them to the directory brew/media/vid/savedvid

You could just as easily use the brew/media/vid/album directory as well. However, this is the default storage folder for videos you take with your phone's camera, so I prefer just to keep things seperate.

Once you have converted your music files to .QCP format, you must upload then to the directory brew/media/snd/voicememo in order for them to play the entire way through. This sucks, but it is the only way to get entire songs to play.

To upload files, navigate to the target folder, then right-click in the rightmost window pane and choose new>file. Select the file you want from your local computer. Then, set the "Clean-Up Option" to "Discard" and the "Creation Date Option" to "Use Phone" (the latter step, however, is optional).

During the transfer of larger files (i.e. over 1 megabyte), you may get an error that reads "Sever Busy". I simply "Force Shutdown" the application by right-clicking on the globe icon in the system tray and selecting "Stop QPST Server". I then toggle the power to my phone, and the file usually appears in its place just fine.

The phone has 16 Megs of RAM, which is plenty of space to store entire music videos and even an episode or two of your favorite cartoon! If you want to know how much space is left on your phone, you can use the account/file manager in your provider's application download manager. I have "Cricket Clicks", and going to Settings and then selecting "Manage Apps", I get a report on how must space is used on my phone.

On a side note: I recently discovered that you can change the volume of a video or sound by using the KX2/KOI's scroll wheel while it is playing.

I wish someone could figure out a way to make the volume louder on this damned thing!

Good hunting!

Posted by: REMTEKRED

Thanks For The Info, I Was Going To Ask Someone About This, Good Thing U Came Along, Now The Other Thing Is To Get Games Ont Here? Ahs Anyone Figure That Out?>

Posted by: REMTEKRED

I Follow The Step To Getting The Entire Song, Convert The Wave To Qcp, And Upload It To Brw/media/snd/vcmemo And It Would Show It In The Qpst, But When The Phone Reset And I Go Check It At The Voice Memo, It Would Not Show, And I Check The System Memory Seem Like Nothing Been Taken Up, R U Getting Any Prb. I'm On Vzw, The Size I Hav Is About 400kb, The Thing I Notice Differnt Is The Mode, It Would Say 100001 And Whatever I Ahve In My Voice Memo Would Be 100003, Any Clue?

Posted by: berry_lthird

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Originally Posted by REMTEKRED

I Follow The Step To Getting The Entire Song, Convert The Wave To Qcp, And Upload It To Brw/media/snd/vcmemo And It Would Show It In The Qpst, But When The Phone Reset And I Go Check It At The Voice Memo, It Would Not Show, And I Check The System Memory Seem Like Nothing Been Taken Up, R U Getting Any Prb. I'm On Vzw, The Size I Hav Is About 400kb, The Thing I Notice Differnt Is The Mode, It Would Say 100001 And Whatever I Ahve In My Voice Memo Would Be 100003, Any Clue?

I have had no problems whatsoever so far.

Be sure to set the "Cleanup Option" to "Discard". That may have something to do with it. Also, use EFS Explorer to reset the phone, if possible.

I will check later today to see if I can reproduce the error you are talking about, so keep checking this thread to see if I have come-up with anything.

Posted by: berry_lthird

I could not reproduce the problem, even though I got a "Server Busy" message while uploading some of the files and had to force quit.

Did you use the reset function of the EFS Explorer tool? It would be the red arrows icon.

That's all I can think of for now. Sorry for your luck!

Posted by: REMTEKRED

it never gave me the server busy prompt, i follow the step u mention to select the discard, hit the reset red button and check the phone voice memo, and nothing in there, i don't get it? i trued the 3g2 movies, still nothing, but if i used KPD it would show up, but it would only be at 60sec and under, nothing higher, i thank u for ur assistant, i'm in tss at vzw, and trying to learn all of this for work

Posted by: berry_lthird

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Originally Posted by REMTEKRED

it never gave me the server busy prompt, i follow the step u mention to select the discard, hit the reset red button and check the phone voice memo, and nothing in there, i don't get it? i trued the 3g2 movies, still nothing, but if i used KPD it would show up, but it would only be at 60sec and under, nothing higher, i thank u for ur assistant, i'm in tss at vzw, and trying to learn all of this for work

Does EFS Explorer show that the files are still there, even when the phone does not?

Here is an idea: Upload the files again, and reset the phone. Then, before trying to browse the files, go to your application download manager and browse for a second.

Now go back and see if the files appear.

This is a method that worked for the Audiovox 8900/8910 when uploading ringtones using BitPim.

You could also try BitPim, but I cannot guarantee your results will be better than they are now.

If you do wind-up using BitPim, be sure to browse your application download manager before restarting the phone as an added precaution. You can find BitPim at http://bitpim.sourceforge.net

Good luck!

Posted by: REMTEKRED

Bitpim Will Not Detect The Phone, What Do U Mean About App. Dl Mgr.? Do U Mean Vzw "get It Now"? I Navagate Through That, And Still When I Go To Check In The Save Video, Said No Files, The Odd Thing Is When I Resync The Phone With Efs, It Will Read That The File Is There But Just Going Into The Phone It Will Not Show, I Even Try To Upload The Qpc Song Conversion In The Voice Memo, Still It Would Not Show In The Phone But Will Show In Efs, Any Idea?

I Had To Used Kpd To Upload The Qpc Files But Not To Voice Memo, No Option In Kpd, Only In Ringer, And It Would Work, Try To Upload The Video But It Would Say It Is To Large, Exceed The Kpd Files Type.

I Have Quick Time 7 Pro, Open Some Video Clip, Was Able To Edit The Video Just Like Ur Step, But When It Would Come To Audio, Everything Is All Grey Out, So I Convert It, And When Upload To The Phone Using Kpd, It Would Work But No Sound, But When Trying To Used Efs With The Same File It Would Not Show Up, Reset The Phone Check It Again, Still Nothing In The Phone, And When Resync The Phone To Efs It Is Still There, Any Idea?

Posted by: REMTEKRED

Here's Something That's Different, When I Used Kpd To Upload The Movie Clip That Is Within The Frame Of Time Allow, It Would Show Up On The Phone, And When I Check In Efs, If Would Show As Long As The One I Used Efs To Upload It But Would Not Show In The Phone...
The Clip That Show, In The "mode" It Would Be "100003" And The Clip That Would Not Show Would Be "100001"....
When I Used Efs To Upload The Qcp Music File, It Would Show Up In The Phone And The Mode Again Is "100003", But When I Put It In Voice Memo It Would Be "100001", And It Would Not Show, Any Clue?

Posted by: REMTEKRED

Well I Made A Test And Seem Like The Mode Has Nothing To Do With It, I Save On Of My Record Video, And Reloaded Back To The Sav Vid Section, Refresh, Reset And Check The Phone And It Show It, And Check Efs And The Mode Say "100001", I'm Lost!!!! Why Don't I Sent U The File I'm Trying To Upload And See If U Could Get It On Ur Phone?

Posted by: berry_lthird

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Originally Posted by REMTEKRED

Well I Made A Test And Seem Like The Mode Has Nothing To Do With It, I Save On Of My Record Video, And Reloaded Back To The Sav Vid Section, Refresh, Reset And Check The Phone And It Show It, And Check Efs And The Mode Say "100001", I'm Lost!!!! Why Don't I Sent U The File I'm Trying To Upload And See If U Could Get It On Ur Phone?

Send away!

My email is available from my profile.

How big is the file?

Posted by: Rezolution

I just send a 3.5 meg 3G2 file to the phone through EFS file explorer to the /brew/media/vid/savedvid folder. It shows up in EFS and it doesn't show up in the phone... I have followed your directions to the T! If I keep reducing the file size, it shows up when it reaches about 500K in size. I had called Kycera about this previously on another occation and they told me there is a 500K OPERATING SYSTEM file limit that cannot be adjusted. How many movies above 500K have you gotten on your phone, and why can't anyone else get them to work???

Posted by: REMTEKRED

The Movie I Created Was About Under 1min And The File Size Was Just Under 500kb, And I Was Able To Used Kpd And It Would Show Up, Now The Only Prb. Is The Video I Converted Has No Sound, Only The Video, Everytime I Would Go To The Option And Select The Audio, It Wuld Be Grey Out, I Have No Option To Make Any Change Like The Step U Mention For The Audio Portion, Other Then That I Have A Great 1min Clip, So I Just Have To Clip Them One By One, But Need Assistant Why The Audio Is Not Showing Up, Any Idea?

I've Given Up On The Whole 1mb Or Over Notion, If I Can Get The Sound Working, I Don't Mind..thanks In Advance Berry, Let Me Know If U Get That Files Working For U

Posted by: berry_lthird

Here are two sample files. One is an MP3 that can be used as a ringtone with NO conversion.

The other is a mini-cartoon at over 1 meg that works fine with sound on my KOI:

http://grabtv.bizland.com/public/media_test.zip

The best tool to export .3g2 videos is QuickTime PRO, but sometimes, you need to split the audio track from the video in order for it to export audio. This is especially the case for MPEG videos and some .AVI files. You will need a splitter program like VirtuaDub for .AVI's or TMPGEnc for MPEG's to extract the audio from the track. Save the audio as a standard .WAV file.

To re-combine the audio with the video, open the audio track with QuickTime PRO and highlight the entire video track by choosing "Edit: Select All" from the File Menu. Then select "Edit: Copy". Then open the video track and choose "Edit: Select All" again. Then choose "Edit: Add Scaled". The audio track will be scaled to match the video (it may be just slightly out of sync, but this is usually barely noticable). Now export the file as a .3g2 video, and BOOM! You got audio!

Try my sample video and let me know if it works for you. It works fine for me!

Posted by: REMTEKRED

Oh My!!!! The Files For Popeyes Work!!!! That Mean U Really Can Have More That 1min On The Phone!!! Man, What's The Setting Am I Doing Something Wrong With The Conversion? I'm Going To Try To Creat A File Again And Get That Audio Working, And Let's See If It Work, If Not I'll Let U Know What Step I've Done Or Step I Miss, Thanks, I Can't Believe This, Thanks Berry!!!

Posted by: REMTEKRED

I Tried It, Was Able To Convert The Sound And Audio As 3g2 Files, But When I Xfer To Efs It Would Show, But When I Reset The Phone, It Would Not Show In The Phone, And This Is The Files I've Created Follow Ur Step In The Video Conversion And Audio Conversion....i Was Able To Upload Popeye In Efs, Would Show And Reset Teh Phone, And Bam!! No Prb. I Would See It And Play It....am I Doing Something Wrong Wht The Conversion? My Files Is 1.4mb

Posted by: berry_lthird

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Originally Posted by REMTEKRED

I Tried It, Was Able To Convert The Sound And Audio As 3g2 Files, But When I Xfer To Efs It Would Show, But When I Reset The Phone, It Would Not Show In The Phone, And This Is The Files I've Created Follow Ur Step In The Video Conversion And Audio Conversion....i Was Able To Upload Popeye In Efs, Would Show And Reset Teh Phone, And Bam!! No Prb. I Would See It And Play It....am I Doing Something Wrong Wht The Conversion? My Files Is 1.4mb

Use QuickTime Pro. Open my example file and view the properties for it. That should help.